Who Am I - Dougie MacLean

Over the mountains and out across the trees

On weathered wings he soars into the edges of the breeze

Over the water and out across the fields

With eagle eye he watches he’s seeing what our hearts can never see

And he speaks to me

From up here I’ve seen your broken truth

I have heard that old eternal lie

From way up here I’ve seen the wasted youth

From up here I’ve heard the old man cry

Saying who am I?

Through the hazels and along the Druthy burn

On feathered feet she’s silent as to her young ones she returns

Over the moon and up the Ben-A-Caly hill

On her lookout rock she watches she’s seeing what our hearts can never see

And she speaks to me

From up here I’ve seen your broken truth

I have heard that old eternal lie

From way up here I’ve seen the wasted youth

From up here I’ve heard the old man cry

Saying who am I?

Life touches nothing life teaches what it can

It can hold us all to ransom the woman and the man

Over the mountains and out across the trees

On weathered wings he soars into the silence on the edges of the breeze

And he speaks to me

From up here I’ve seen your broken truth

I have heard that old eternal lie

From way up here I’ve seen the wasted youth

From up here I’ve heard the old man cry

Saying who am I?